Additional Solicitor General of India

Additional Solicitor General of India abbreviated as Addl. SGI is a law officer of India who assists the Solicitor-General and the Attorney-General. Addl. SGI is governed by Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987.

List of incumbent Law Officers The list of incumbent Law Officers (i.e. AGI, SGI, Addl. SGIs) as of 1 October 2026 is as follows:

List of Law OfficersAttorney General of IndiaAppointmentTerm lengthR. Venkataramani1 October 2022Solicitor General of IndiaAppointmentTerm lengthTushar Mehta10 October 2018Additional Solicitor General of IndiaAppointmentTerm lengthVikramjit BanerjeeSupreme Court5 March 2018K. M. Nataraj14 January 2019Suryaprakash V. Raju30 June 2020N. Venkataraman30 June 2020Aishwarya Bhati30 June 2020S. Dwarakanath10 September 2024Archana Pathak Dave10 September 2024Brijender Chahar10 September 2024Rajkumar Bhaskar Thakare10 September 2024Raghavendra P. Shankar10 September 2024Davinder Pal Singh23 December 2025Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar23 December 2025Anil Kaushik23 December 2025Bharat VyasRajasthan HC1 October 2025Satya Pal JainPunjab & Haryana HC8 April 2015Shashi Prakash SinghAllahabad HC9 February 2018AR. L. SundaresanMadras HC19 December 2022Dhiraj Kumar TrivediCalcutta HC9 June 2026Chetan SharmaDelhi HC1 July 2020Dr. Krishna Nandan SinghPatna HC1 July 2020Prashant PallavaJharkhand HC1 November 2025K. Arvind KamathKarnataka HC17 October 2023B. Narasimha SharmaTelangana HC17 October 2023Anil Chandrabali SinghBombay HC10 March 2025Challa DhanamjayaAndhra Pradesh HC27 January 2025Sunil JainMadhya Pradesh HC29 September 2025P. SreekumarKerala HC23 March 2026

Duties Duties of Solicitor General of India and other law officers are laid out in Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987: to give advice to the Government of India upon such legal matters, and to perform such other duties of a legal character, as may from time to time, be referred or assigned to him by the Government of India. to appear, whenever required, in the Supreme Court or in any High Court on behalf of the Government of India in cases (including suits, writ petitions, appeal and other proceedings) in which the Government of India is concerned as a party or is otherwise interested; to represent the Government of India in any reference made by the President to the Supreme Court under Article 143 of the Constitution; and to discharge such other functions as are conferred on a Law Officer by or under the Constitution or any other Law for the time being in force.

Restrictions of private practice As law officers represent government of India, there are certain restrictions which are put on their private practice. A law officer is not allowed to: hold briefs in any court for any party except the Government of India or the government of a State or any University, Government School or College, local authority, Public Service Commission, Port Trust, Port Commissioners, Government aided or Government managed hospitals, a Government company, any Corporation owned or controlled by the State, any body or institution in which the Government has a preponderating interest; advise any party against the Government of India or a Public Sector Undertaking, or in cases in which he is likely to be called upon to advise, or appear for, the Government of India or a Public Sector Undertaking; defend an accused person in a criminal prosecution, without the permission of the Government of India; or accept appointment to any office in any company or corporation without the permission of the Government of India; advise any Ministry or Department of Government of India or any statutory organization or any Public Sector Undertaking unless the proposal or a reference in this regard is received through the Ministry of Law and Justice, Department of Legal Affairs.

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